The essays in this volume fall within a chapter on one of the foundational law subjects on the degree syllabus, and aim to provide an account of feminist approaches to each of the following areas: contracts, torts, land law, equity and trusts, criminal law, public law, and European law.

Feminist scholarship can provide public lawyers with the critical tools and insights to respond to these new challenges. This collection begins a dialogue between public law and feminism by offering a range of perspectives on contemporary public law themes and topics.

This Advanced Introduction overviews the ongoing struggle for gender equality since the nineteenth century. It considers how women have looked to law as a means of facilitating entry into the public sphere, including in higher education, work and professional life.

This collection of essays on feminist legal theory therefore provides an interdisciplinary approach, drawn not only from law and philosophy, but also from cultural and womens studies.

Whilst equal pay, maternity rights and sex discrimination have received attention from feminist scholars, there is an increasing awareness that the whole working environment needs to be examined. This text presents a discussion of traditional and less obvious aspects of employment.

Feminist Perspectives on Tort brings together acknowledged experts in these two areas to pursue a distinctly feminist approach to the major areas of tort law.

Whilst there many publications dealing with children from both legal and theoretical perspectives, the child is persistently represented and discussed as a gender neutral or pre-gender and pre-sexual object. This text uses feminist perspectives to explore more rarely addressed aspects of childhood.

Introduction : feminism and families plus ca change? / by Alison Diduck and Katherine O'Donovan -- Family friendly? : rights, responsibilities, and relationship recognition / by Carl Stychin -- Shared households : a new paradigm for thinking about the reform of domestic property relations / by Anne Bottomley and Simone Wong -- What is a parent? / by Emily Jackson -- Parents in law : subjective impacts and status implications around the use of licensed donor insemination / by Caroline Jones -- After birth : decisions about becoming a mother / by Katherine O'Donovan and Jill Marshall -- The ethic of justice strikes back : changing narratives of fatherhood / by Carol Smart -- Domestic violence, men's groups and the equivalence argument / by Felicity Kaganas -- Feminist perspectives on youth justice / by Christine Piper -- Working towards credit for parenting : a consideration of tax credits as a feminist enterprise / by Ann Mumford -- The branch on which we sit: multiculturalism, minority women, and family law / by Maleiha Malik -- Feminist legal studies and the subject(s) of men : questions of text, terrain, and context in the politics of family law and gender / by Richard Collier.